K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates’ London office is recognised for providing integrated legal teams tailored to the specific needs of clients, whether involving complex global transactions, corporate investigations, or major dispute resolution matters. The firm delivers comprehensive international, domestic, and cross-border advice across a broad spectrum of practice areas, often combining expertise from multiple disciplines to address client requirements.

K&L Gates is among the largest law firms globally, with more than 45 offices across key capital cities and commercial centres on five continents. Its offices operate collaboratively, offering clients local market knowledge alongside access to both national and international capabilities.

The firm’s main practice areas include:

Corporate: Advising on domestic and cross-border public and private M&A transactions, debt and equity capital markets, private equity and venture capital, and commercial contracts.

Real Estate: Delivering strategic and practical advice on corporate and joint venture matters, financing, tax structures, acquisitions, developments, dispositions, leasing, construction issues, planning and environmental matters, and dispute resolution. The team also represents funders and investors in commercial real estate investment and financing.

Finance: Advising banks and borrowers on mainstream lending, structured finance, securitisation, commercial real estate financing, and restructuring transactions, with a dedicated Aviation Finance team serving airlines, financial institutions, and leasing companies worldwide.

Intellectual Property: Handling commercial, regulatory, data protection, privacy, technology transactions, and intellectual property matters, with expertise in trademarks, designs, copyright, licensing, cross-border counselling, portfolio management, enforcement, and disputes across technology, retail, luxury, sports, consumer products, and gambling sectors.

Asset Management and Investment Funds: Advising on the organisation and operations of investment advisers, open and closed-end investment companies, ETFs, private funds, broker-dealers, retirement plans, family offices, and other service providers, as well as UK and EU regulatory matters and emerging financial market issues.

Energy, Infrastructure, and Resources: Guiding clients on strategic decisions, policy initiatives, commercial transactions, project financing, regulatory compliance, tax matters, credit trading, and litigation across energy, infrastructure, and resources sectors, including renewables, offshore, maritime, oil and gas, transport, rail, and corporate energy sourcing and sustainability. The team also manages high-value construction and infrastructure projects and disputes.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Managing complex disputes across aviation, insurance, energy, finance, media, gambling, sports, construction, and corporate transactional matters in English courts and major arbitral forums. The team also handles fraud, white-collar defense, corporate crime, and regulatory proceedings, with a dedicated Insurance Coverage practice representing policyholders globally.

Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety: Advising on the full range of employment matters, including cross-jurisdictional projects, workplace health and safety, immigration, benefits, tax, executive compensation, compliance, and investigations, supported by the firm’s Global Employer Solutions® program.

Competition and Regulatory: Providing guidance on EU and UK competition and trade laws, merger control, distribution issues, and representation before the European Commission.

London Managing Partner: Tony Griffiths (Managing Partner, London, Brussels, Dubai, and Doha Offices; Managing Partner, Europe and Middle East)

Offices:
Europe: Berlin, Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Luxembourg, Milan, Munich, Paris.
Middle East: Doha, Dubai.
United States: Austin, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Harrisburg, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New York, Newark, Orange County, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh, Research Triangle Park, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Wilmington.
South America: Sao Paulo.
Asia: Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo.
Australia: Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney